---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3617"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3617"
heading: "Travel expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3617"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Panama Canal"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Regulations"
  - "Part 1"
---

# §3617. Travel expenses


While away from their homes, regular places of business, or official stations in performance of services under this part, members of the Board of the [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) and the representatives of the United States on the Consultative Committee referred to in [section 3615 of this title](/usc/22/3615.md) and on the Joint [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) on the Environment referred to in [section 3616 of this title](/usc/22/3616.md) shall be allowed travel or transportation expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in Government service are allowed expenses under [section 5703 of title 5](/usc/5/5703.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1107, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 458.)